Past Quotes

Maya angelou - prejudice is a burden that confuses the past,...
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Mary bertone - past and to come seem best things present worst....
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.
John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
Jean De La Bruyere
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.
Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.
La Rochefoucauld
Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.
Dan McKinnon
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Sophocles
An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.
James Barrett Scotty Reston
Rene descartes - the reading of all good books is indeed like a...
The past is certain, the future obscure.
Thales
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.
Mark White
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.
Oswald Chambers
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Coope
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
William Shakespeare
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.
George Steine
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
Sir William Osle
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan
The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. Wells
The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition.
Israel Zangwill
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Joseph Conrad
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....
Ursala Lequin
The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.
L. Thomas Holdcroft
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.
Lillian Eichler Watson
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Sophocles, Trachiniae
Be positive in addressing the envelope to your future, For enclosed are your efforts from the past. Be certain of the postage and double check what class.
Unknown
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past... is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.
Frederick Chiluba